A shocking report from a senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) source revealed that during former President Joe Biden’s time in office, over 1,500 Iranian nationals were arrested after crossing the southern border illegally, and nearly half of them were then released into the United States, raising alarm bells regarding terrorism following the recent successful attack on Iranian nuclear sites.
For context, an anonymous source, cited as a senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official, told Fox News on June 22, 2025, that during President Biden’s term, Border Patrol agents arrested 1,504 Iranian nationals, and 729 of those individuals were subsequently released into the United States. Moreover, the anonymous source told Fox that the number of Iranian nationals who were arrested at the southern border “increased year-to-year,” reaching its peak at 448 in 2024.
Importantly, the report from Fox News comes at a critical point when concern about the activation of Iranian sleeper cells is higher than ever after the June 21, 2025, attack on three key Iranian nuclear sites. Weighing in on the issue to Fox News Digital, Former FBI assistant director Chris Wecker said American agencies are “at a serious catch-up phase,” which Wecker directly attributed to “open borders.”
Continuing his statement to Fox, Wecker said that at this point, “We don’t know where those thousand Iranians are and who knows how many others got across the border. We missed an opportunity when they caught and released those thousand.” He added, “We missed the opportunity to gather intel by interviewing them and thoroughly vetting them. We just simply let them go, which is gross negligence on the part of the Biden administration.”
Moreover, in an interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo, also on June 22, 2025, Trump border czar Tom Homan responded to the growing concerns about the consequences of illegal immigration under the Biden administration, saying, “So we’re not releasing people in this country, special interest aliens aren’t crossing this border undetected,”
Continuing, Homan, who has become the leading voice on the border crisis, said, “Under Joe Biden, we had over 10 million people cross that border. But my biggest concern, from day one, beyond the fentanyl, beyond the sex trafficking of women and children, were the two million known gotaways.” He added, “Over two million people crossed that border, we don’t know who they are, where they came from, because they got away because border patrol is so overwhelmed with the humanitarian crisis that Biden created that 2 million people crossed the border and got away.”
Furthermore, Homan told Bartiromo that Border Patrol officers had found “prayer mats,” along with forms of identification from Iran, over the course of the last four years, explaining, “So we know that some terrorists have crossed that border, we’d be a fool to think zero crossed.”
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However, on the evening of June 23, 2025, President Trump posted on Truth Social and emphatically stated that a “Complete and Total CEASEFIRE” was pending between Israel and Iran, calling the conflict between the two nations “THE 12 DAY WAR” and adding, “God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and GOD BLESS THE WORLD!”
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